The Minnesota Lecture is a lecture series given by distinguished alumni of the department.

2008	Hugo Hopenhayn	Knowledge, Diffusion and Reallocation
2006	Richard Kihlstrom	Reflections on 40 Years of Economic Theory
2005-06	Bob Litterman	Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach
2005	Martin Eichenbaum	Thoughts on Modeling the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
2004	Lars Hansen	Valuation in an Uncertain Economy
2003	Richard Sandor	Financial Innovation and Building Institutions
2002	Robert Townsend	Thailand Project: Evaluation of Financial Systems
2001	John Roberts	The Design of Economic Organizations: Complements and Non-Convexities
2000	Andreu Mas Colell	FromTransitivity to Matching, with Some Adapting in Between
1999	Daniel McFadden	Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?:  Socioeconomic Status, Morbidity, and Mortality Among the Elderly